Stephan Livera Podcast

SLP301 Bitcoin Mining Pools Decentralised? A Discussion with Pavel Moravec of SlushPool & Ryan Ellis of Laurentia Pool

How should Bitcoin mining be structured? Pavel Moravec of SlushPool (Braiins) and Ryan Ellis of Laurentia Pool join me to chat. We discuss: Why pools exist How to structure mining pools Trade offs around decentralisation...

2021-08-18

Episode notes

How should Bitcoin mining be structured? Pavel Moravec of SlushPool (Braiins) and Ryan Ellis of Laurentia Pool join me to chat. We discuss:



  • Why pools exist

  • How to structure mining pools

  • Trade offs around decentralisation of pools

  • Coinbase payouts vs other ways

  • Lightning payouts

  • Scalability for mining pools

  • Stratum v2


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